Hart, Henry Melvin. Papers, 1927-1969: Finding Aid.

Location: Harvard DepositoryCall No.: HOLLIS 601611Repository: Harvard Law School Library, Harvard Library, Harvard UniversityCreator: Hart, Henry MelvinTitle: Papers, 1927-1969Date(s): 1928-1969Quantity: 56 boxesAbstract: Materials relating to Hart's career as a legal scholar, labor arbitrator, and as special
assistant to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1940-1941) and associate
general counsel to the U.S. Office of Price Administration (1942-1945).

Access to these papers is governed by the rules and regulations of the Harvard Law
School Library. This collection is open to the public, but is housed off-site at Harvard
Depository and requires 2 business-day advance notice for retrieval. Consult the Special
Collections staff for further information. Access to these papers is governed, in
addition, by the terms of the Agreement between Mary W. Hart and the Harvard Corporation
(see Special Collections Case Files).

The Harvard Law School Library holds copyright on some, but not all, of the material
in our collections. Requests for permission to publish material from this collection
should be directed to the Special Collections staff. Researchers who obtain permission
to publish from the Harvard Law School Library are also responsible for identifying
and contacting the persons or organizations who hold copyright.

Series I.CorrespondenceThis Series consists almost entirely of letters dealing with the two major phases
of Hart's professional career: the time he spent working in Washington, and the time
in which he taught at the Harvard Law School. Beginning in about 1928, when Hart was
a student at the Harvard Law School, the letters trace his activities and his friendships
with the people around him. Of particular interest are the files of letters to and
from Felix Frankfurter and Frederick Wiener, a friend of Harts from Law Review days
onward.The material in this Series demonstrates in an impressive way the clarity of Hart's
mind. This same quality is also manifest in the material preserved in Series IV.,
Writings, Speeches, etc.The Series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. The dates following the entry
for each individual correspondent indicate the inclusive dates of that particular
sequence of correspondence. Folders for individuals include both incoming and outgoing
mail and enclosures. Persons having a correspondence of less than five items are grouped
under "Miscellany" at the end of each alphabetical letter, e.g. A Miscellany, B Miscellany,
etc.

Series II.Student NotesThis Series consists of notebooks kept by Hart while a student at the Harvard Law
School. There is only one notebook that is identified as a first-year course. Notes
for each course are dated for month and day of each particular lecture.This Series was transferred to the Student Notes Collection under the title "Class
Notes of Henry Melvin Hart" (HOLLIS AJS0918).

Series III.Teaching NotesThis Series includes manuscript and mimeographed notes for courses given by Professor
Hart; manuscript, mimeographed, and printed research material for courses; some correspondence
about obtaining printed research material; lists of citations; student papers written
for Prof. Hart; printed briefs, opinions, and congressional bills, sent to Prof. Hart
by friends, which they thought would be of interest to him.

Series IV.Writings, Speeches, etc.This Series consists of notes, drafts, research material, final typewritten manuscripts,
proof sheets, and reprints of some of Prof. Hart's writings and speeches, as well
as correspondence about some individual pieces of writing. A substantial part of this
manuscript material deals with the functioning of the U.S. Supreme Court, particularly
in the 1930's.The material in this Series was poorly organized and poorly identified; in many cases
it was not possible to establish Prof. Hart as the author, or dates or places of publication
or presentation.

Series V.Committees and ActivitiesThis Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, printed material, briefs, statistics,
etc. related to Harvard committees and organizations other than official faculty committees
that Prof. hart was a member of between 1933 and 1967. Material related to Prof. Hart's
other activities including private legal work is also included. Examples of Prof.
Hart's activities outside the Law School are the drawing up of statutes for the City
of Cambridge and his serving as arbitrator in various Massachusetts labor disputes.Prof. Hart's official Faculty Committee files were transferred to the Harvard Archives
on June 1, 1970 (see list in this inventory).

Series VI.Office of Price AdministrationThe material in this Series dates from the end of World War II, when Prof. Hart was
active in the Office of Price Administration. The bulk of the material is from the
year 1946, but there are items as early as 1941 and as late as 1951.Most of the items in this Series are memoranda, notes, and mimeographed material that
circulated within the OPA concerning the basis for price control and the various means
and agencies of its enforcement. For the most part the arrangement is as it was found
in Hart's own files. For additional material, see Paige Boxes I and II.

Series VII.ImmigrationMaterial in this Series consists of correspondence, drafts, memoranda, congressional
bills, circulars, and reports. Much of the material is from the period when Hart was
a Special Assistant to the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the U.S. Attorney
General's Office from 1940 to 1941; Hart, however, was actively engaged in research
in and improvement of immigration legislation from 1935 on.

Series VIII.Massachusetts Bay Telecasters, Inc.Professor Hart was elected as a member of the board of directors of Massachusetts
Bay Telecasters, Inc. (MBT) on February 10, 1954; he was also a stockholder. Items
in this Series relate to a petition of TV Channel 5 in Boston, which was owned by
MBT, to construct a television station. Folders include briefs and other legal documents
relating to this case (petition), which was heard before the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia and from there went to the U.S. Supreme Court. Hart served
as counsel in these appeals. He also served on the Education Committee of MBT, and
folders include materials on a workshop on planning and designing educational programs
as well as scripts for programs.This Series contains minutes; reports; statistical tables; correspondence; holograph,
typed, and printed items; briefs; and other legal documents, covering the period between
1953 and 1960.

The approximately 5000 items of the Papers of Henry Melvin Hart, Jr. (1904-1969) span
the years 1927 to 1969. The collection includes professional correspondence, student
notebooks of Hart, teaching notes in manuscript and typed form, student papers written
for Hart's courses, research notes and printed research material, manuscripts of writings
and speeches in draft and in final typed form, and mimeographed material circulated
by Government agencies such as memoranda, reports, tables, and circulars.

The Papers of Professor Hart relate to his activities as law teacher, legal scholar,
arbitrator of labor disputes, and to his years of service with various Government
agencies in Washington, especially between 1940 and 1946.

This series consists almost entirely of letters dealing with the two major phases
of Hart's professional career: the time he spent working in Washington, and the time
in which he taught at the Harvard Law School. Beginning in about 1928, when Hart was a student at the Harvard Law School, the letters trace his activities and his friendships with the people around him. Of
particular interest are the files of letters to and from Felix Frankfurter and Frederick
Wiener, a friend of Hart's from Law Review days onward.

The material in this series demonstrates in an impressive way the clarity of Hart's
mind. This same quality is also manifest in the material preserved in Series IV; Writings
and Speeches.

The series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. The dates following the entry
for each individual correspondent indicate the inclusive dates of that particular
sequence of correspondence. Folders for individuals include both incoming and outgoing
nail and enclosures. Persons having a correspondence of less than five items are grouped
under "Miscellany" at the end of each alphabetical letter, e.g. A Miscellany, B Miscellany,
etc.

1-1. Acheson, Dean 1940-1947 Date: 1940-1947

1-2. Aswell, Edward 1930-1958 includes correspondence about Thomas Wolfe's last and fatal illness, in
1938, also his manuscripts

Notebooks of HMH while a student at the Harvard Law School. All of these student notebooks have been transferred to the Class Notes collection--
see ALEPH 2003747..

7. Agency (2L)

7. Conflict of Laws (3L)

8. Constitutional Law

8. Corporations (3L)

8. Criminal Law (1L)

9. Equity

9. Equity III (3L)

9. Evidence (2L)

9. Federal Jurisdiction

10. Property (2L)

10. Property III (3L)

10. Sales (2L)

11. Trusts (2L)

11. 4 Notebooks (2 are 2L, 2 are unmarked) None are marked as to course, although one seems to contain Evidence notes.

11-1. Harvard Law School grades of HMH, June 1929 1 folder Date: June 1929

Series: Teaching Notes Series Note

Series includes MS and mimeographed notes for courses given by HMH; MS, mimeographed,
and printed research material for courses; some correspondence about obtaining printed
research material; lists of citations; student papers written for HMH; printed briefs,
opinions, and congressional bills, sent to HMH by friends, which they thought would
be of interest to him.

21-1 to 21-3. United States Supreme Court: opinions, etc. Folders include preliminary printings of opinions sent to HMH by Felix Frankfurter
and others; also OPA Statutes and Executive Orders; also opinions of U. S. Emergency Court of Appeals.

21-4 to 21-7. Miscellany Includes "Draft of Introduction to Old Maryland Record"; also a long, untitled and
unsigned paper on colonial Massachusetts judicial history, possibly by Zechariah Chafee.

Series: Writings, Speeches, etc. Series Note

This Series consists of notes, drafts, research material, final typewritten manuscripts,
proof sheets, and reprints of some of HMH's writings and speeches, as well as correspondence
about some individual pieces of writing. A substantial part of this MS material deals
with the functioning of the U.S. Supreme Court, particularly in the 1930's.

The material in this series was poorly organized and poorly identified; in many cases
it was not possible to establish HMH as the author, or dates or places of publication
or presentation.

22-1. Speech about changes in American economy, outlook on future, etc.; ca. 1931 or early
1932 Date: 1931 Date: early 1932

22-2. Speech about the Great Depression, its probable Causes, and its possible cures early
1935 Date: early 1935

22-3. The American System of Constitutional Law": Speech to the General Council of the National League of Women Voters, at Washington, D.C. May, 1937 Date: May, 1937

23-1. "Criminal Liability without fault": notes for talk at Round Table on Criminal Law, Association of American Law Schools, Chicago December 29, 1958 Date: December 29, 1958

23-2. Notes for Jurisprudence Forum on Economic Planning; undated

23-3. "The Morality of Function": speech at HLS; undated

23. 1939 Report on Immigration Procedure, Mimeographed and bound, not placed in folder

23. Surveys, Supreme Court (U.S. Supreme Court) Date: October Term 1931 Date: October Term 1932 Date: October Term 1933 Date: October Term 1934 Date: October Term 1935 Date: October Term 1936 Date: October Term 1937 Date: 1938 8 items:

Date: October Term 1931 (2 copies)

Date: October Term 1932

Date: October Term 1933

Date: October Term 1934

Date: October Term 1935

Date: October Term 1936

Date: October Term 1937 (contains loose material on Date: 1938 term)

Carbon copies of typed materials, clipped in notebook covers. Not placed in folders.

24. "State Taxation of Shares of Stock under the Federal Constitution". Constitutional Law thesis of HMH, Harvard Law School. 223 pages and appendix of annotated cases. Carbon copy. Not placed in folders.

30-3. "The Federal Employers' Liability Act in the Supreme Court"; a paper submitted to Professor F. Frankfurter in the course on Federal Jurisdiction,
by Henry Cohen and HMH. Typed and hand-written drafts. May 13, 1930 Date: May 13, 1930

30-4 to 30-7. "Taxation of Shared of Stock" Typewritten and handwritten notes and drafts.

30-8. "The United States Supreme Court; an argument on the President's side", by HMH. Publ. for Harvard Alumni Ass'n by Harvard Bulletin, 1937 issue of Bulletin, drafts, fan-mail. Date: 1937

30-9. Miscellany "Local Rules of the U.S. Distr. Court for the Distr. of Mass., effective Sept. 1, 1967." Copy submitted to Lloyd Weinreb
and HMH for proofreading, including corrections and memo about printing.

30-10. Miscellaneous clippings

Series: Committess and Activities Series Note

This Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, printed material, briefs, statistics,
etc. related to Harvard committees and organizations other than official faculty committees
that HMH was a member of between 1933 and 1967; also other activities including private
legal work. Examples of HMH's activitiees outside the Law School are the drawing up
of statutes for the City of Cambridge and his serving as an arbitrator in various
Massachusetts labor disputes.

HMH's official Faculty Committee files were transferred to the Harvard Archives June
1, 1970 (see list on p. 45 of this inventory).

31-1 to 31-2. Academic Freedom 1953 Date: 1953 All printed material

31-3. American Arbitration Association 1949-1962 Date: 1949-1962

31-4. Ames Foundation 1937-1938 Date: 1937-1938 HMH was Treasurer

31-5. Association of American Law Schools: Committee on Current Legal Literature 1933-1936 Date: 1933-1936

The material in this series dates from the end of World War II, when HMH was active
in the Office of Price Administration. The bulk of the material is from the year 1946,
but there are items as early as 1941 and as late as 1951.

Most of the items in this series are memoranda, notes, and mimeographed material
that circulated within the OPA concerning the basis for price control and the various
means and agencies of its enforcement. For the most part the arrangement is as it
was found in Hart's own files. For additional material, see PAIGE BOXES I and II.

37-1. Adjustments

37-2. Agency powers

37-3. Agriculture

37-4. Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives

37-5. Bottlenecks

37-6. Cafeteria prices

37-7. Chronological file

37-8 to 37-9. Coal

37-10. Congressional Committees

37-11. Cotton

37-12. Decreases

37-13. Directives and Orders of Labor Department

37-14 to 37-16. Economic Co-operation Administration

37-17. Economic data

37-18. Executive Order providing for the continued stabilization of the national economy....

Material in this Series consists of correspondence, drafts, memoranda, congressional
bills, circulars, and reports. Much of the material is from the period when HMH was
a Special Assistant to the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the U.S. Attorney
General's Office from 1940 to 1941; HMH, however, was actively engaged in research
in and improvement of immigration legislation from 1935 on.

46, 47, 48. Minutes, reports, statistical tables, correspondence, briefs, and other legal documents
1953-1960 Date: 1953-1960 Holograph, typed and printed items. HMH was elected member of board of directors of
MBT on 10 February 1954; he was also a stockholder. Items relate to petition of TV
Chanel 5 in Boston, which was owned by MBT, to construct a television station. Folders
include briefs and other legal documents relating to this case (petition) which was
heard before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and from there went to the U.S. Supreme Court. HMH served as counsel in these appeals. HMH also served on the Education Committee of MBT, and folders include materials on a workshop on planning and designing educational
programs, also scripts for programs.

Series: Addenda

49. Miscellaneous teaching notes and writings Notes, drafts and outlines for the following:

50-8 Executive order defining additional functions and duties of the Board of Economic
Warfare; Copies of draft bill "An Act to Provide Uniform Procedure for hearings before
Boards Created by Congress" for Legislation seminar